Visions of utopia
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In "Visions of utopia", three cultural critics look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing.
January 2003, New York
Visions of utopia
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In "Visions of utopia", three cultural critics look at the history of utopian thinking, exploring why they fail and why they are still worth pursuing.
The world unfurled
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Over 12 million people each year are wowed by Matteo Pericoli's spectacular skyline mural in New York's JFK International Airport. Now Pericoli has rendered that same mural in this unique accordion format. The original 397-foot drawing (the largest ever featured in an airline terminal) captures the breathtaking beauty of 415 famous buildings from 70 countries melded into(...)
October 2008, San Francisco
The world unfurled
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Over 12 million people each year are wowed by Matteo Pericoli's spectacular skyline mural in New York's JFK International Airport. Now Pericoli has rendered that same mural in this unique accordion format. The original 397-foot drawing (the largest ever featured in an airline terminal) captures the breathtaking beauty of 415 famous buildings from 70 countries melded into a seamless skyline where the Eiffel Tower rubs shoulders with the Brooklyn Bridge.
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In "The Emerald City", Dan Willis takes us on a flight of imagination that paradoxically never strays far from the most tangible, even intimate subjects. His essays range from the Tower of Babel to the Wizard of Oz, from Christo to Christmas trees, from the "lightness of(...)
June 1999, New York
The emerald city and other essays on the architectural imagination
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In "The Emerald City", Dan Willis takes us on a flight of imagination that paradoxically never strays far from the most tangible, even intimate subjects. His essays range from the Tower of Babel to the Wizard of Oz, from Christo to Christmas trees, from the "lightness of being" to the "weight of architecture." This ultimately optimistic book suggests that architecture is as vital as ever. The texts draw equally from literary sources, architectural practice, philosophical analyses, pop culture, and everyday experiences. Willis's perspective as a writer, architect, artist, and teacher informs his work; his texts are at once reflective and proactive, as they challenge readers to rethink their participation in the built environment.
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June 1999, New York
Gravity's rainbow
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
May 2009
Gravity's rainbow
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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce’s Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.
Architecture without place, 1968/2008 : unbuilt visionary, ephemeral architecture & installations
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The exhibition 'Architectures without Place (1968-2008)' presents a series of works that either were never built or no longer exist : a vast field which ranges from theoretical speculations, visionary prefigurings and ideas competitions to modified projects, ephemeral installations and botched buildings. This variegated realm of the unbuilt (or of the now non-existent)(...)
June 2009
Architecture without place, 1968/2008 : unbuilt visionary, ephemeral architecture & installations
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The exhibition 'Architectures without Place (1968-2008)' presents a series of works that either were never built or no longer exist : a vast field which ranges from theoretical speculations, visionary prefigurings and ideas competitions to modified projects, ephemeral installations and botched buildings. This variegated realm of the unbuilt (or of the now non-existent) allows us to analyse the conceptual heritage of a long period of Catalonian cultural history; in other words, it lets us dissect forty years of architecture produced locally, highlighting the prevailing ideas at each step of the way. This is a heterogeneous field of project design in which converge other disciplines fuelled by a powerful desire to articulate and transform space : comics, theatre, film, ephemeral installations and the visual arts in general.
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Dans ce livre de contes absolument pas pour enfants, quatre beaux animaux racontent leurs aventures où la soif de sexe, de sang et d’orgueil transforme les villes en zoos et l’homme en bête féroce. À Moncton, un joueur de hockey junior majeur est catapulté dans une crise politique grave lorsqu’il couche avec une femme entretenant des liens étroits avec l’équipe(...)
November 2012
Ménageries : histoires d'animaux
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Dans ce livre de contes absolument pas pour enfants, quatre beaux animaux racontent leurs aventures où la soif de sexe, de sang et d’orgueil transforme les villes en zoos et l’homme en bête féroce. À Moncton, un joueur de hockey junior majeur est catapulté dans une crise politique grave lorsqu’il couche avec une femme entretenant des liens étroits avec l’équipe locale. À Saint-Hyacinthe, une femme apprend à ses dépens qu’un bain de minuit dans la rivière Yamaska peut provoquer de graves effets secondaires. Dans le Village, un bear séropositif s’amourache d’un jeune homme et devient prêt à tout pour le faire passer dans son « équipe ». À Victoriaville, une étudiante s’en prend à la barmaid étoile du bar le plus populaire de la ville pour tenter de sauver son couple. Tout ça illustré en couleur, comme dans les livres de Disney.
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First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, Lesabéndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbart's novel was(...)
May 2013
Lesabénio : an asteroid novel
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First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart's masterpiece, Lesabéndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbart's novel was admired by such architects as Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, and such thinkers as Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with(...)
September 2013
Free city
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Free City is storyteller João Almino's third novel to focus on the city of Brasilia, the social swirl of its early years, when contractors, corporate profiteers, idealists, politicians, mystical sects, and even celebrities mingled. Putting past and present into direct conflict, the story takes the form of a blog, even incorporating comments from other bloggers, each with their vested interests, each with new reasons for spinning fictions of their own.
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The "architectural imaginary" describes architecture in its broadest sense: images of cities drawn from collective experience and imagination. Hailing from 11 countries, each of the 14 artists who have contributed to Automatic Cities engage the psychological and sociopolitical aspects of architecture through their work, mapping the influence of the architectural imaginary(...)
August 2009
Automatic cities: the architectural imaginary in contemporary art
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The "architectural imaginary" describes architecture in its broadest sense: images of cities drawn from collective experience and imagination. Hailing from 11 countries, each of the 14 artists who have contributed to Automatic Cities engage the psychological and sociopolitical aspects of architecture through their work, mapping the influence of the architectural imaginary on contemporary visual art. The book is organized into four thematic groupings. Matthew Buckingham, Ann Lislegaard and Paul Noble treat architecture's relationship to language; "Architecture and Memory" includes installations by Saskia Olde Wolbers, Hiraki Sawa and Rachel Whiteread; "Architecture as Model" encompasses installations by Michael Borremans, Los Carpinteros, Catharina van Eetvelde and Katrin Sigurdardottir; and the theme of surveillance is explored by Jakob Kolding, Sarah Oppenheimer, Julie Mehretu and Matthew Ritchie.
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Catalogue of the exhibition at the Art gallery of greater Victoria, Victoria, British-Columbia on november 2006-marsh 2007.
September 2009
Fantastic frameworks: architectural utopias + designs for life
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Catalogue of the exhibition at the Art gallery of greater Victoria, Victoria, British-Columbia on november 2006-marsh 2007.